NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools KS

Best-Resourced Schools in Leavenworth, KS

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9 public K-12 schools in Leavenworth from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
4,128
Students
33.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Leavenworth has more public-school enrollment than 46% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Leavenworth's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Leavenworth's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Leavenworth lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 23 to 1,237 students, a 54-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 54%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
19th percentile
Teacher staffing
45th percentile

Leavenworth Sr High accounts for 30.0% of all Leavenworth public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Leavenworth-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Leavenworth school enrollment varies 54× across entities

Leavenworth school enrollment ranges from 23 students (lowest) to 1,237 students (highest), a spread of 1,214 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Leavenworth student-teacher ratio is 15.8:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Leavenworth is typically wider than the Leavenworth-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Richard Warren Middle School 42
2. Richard Warren Intermediate School 41
3. Henry Leavenworth 41
4. Anthony Elementary 41
5. Leavenworth Sr High 34
6. Lansing High 9-12 34
7. David Brewer Elementary 28
8. Leavenworth Virtual School 19
9. Earl Lawson Early Education Center 18

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Leavenworth

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Leavenworth Virtual School 73.3/100
  2. 2 Anthony Elementary 72.0/100
  3. 3 Earl Lawson Early Education Center 70.8/100
  4. 4 Richard Warren Middle School 65.9/100
  5. 5 David Brewer Elementary 64.9/100

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Which Leavenworth school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Richard Warren Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Leavenworth schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Leavenworth, KS? ▼

Leavenworth has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,128 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.